4th April 2003, 5:46 PM
Um, did you just say an entire religious doctrine is built into the Jewish race from birth? I just popped in to hear you say "Jewish people are born Jewish", which of course I assumed to mean race, until you mentioned it would be wrong to ask them to convert to Christianity. Um, you don't actually think that a whole belief structure is wired in to them from birth, do you? Many people who aren't of the Jewish race are of the Jewish religion, and at the same time many who are of the Jewish race aren't of the Jewish religion.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)